{"id":672446,"date":"2026-03-21T22:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T22:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/672446\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T22:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T22:48:14","slug":"irans-president-says-immediate-cessation-of-us-israeli-aggression-needed-to-end-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/672446\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s president says immediate cessation of US-Israeli aggression needed to end war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">March 21 (Reuters) &#8211; Iran&#8217;s President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Saturday that there needs \u200cto be an &#8220;immediate cessation&#8221; of what \u200che described as U.S.-Israeli aggression to end the war \u200band wider regional conflict, Iran&#8217;s embassy in India said in an X post on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Pezeshkian spoke with India&#8217;s Prime Minister Narendra Modi \u200cby phone earlier \u2060in the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Pezeshkian told Modi that there should be guarantees to \u2060prevent a recurrence of such &#8220;aggression&#8221; in the future. He also called on the BRICS bloc \u200bof major \u200bemerging economies to \u200bplay an independent \u200crole in halting aggression against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Iranian president proposed a regional security framework comprising West Asian countries to ensure peace without foreign interference, according to the country&#8217;s embassy in \u200cIndia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a separate post \u200bon X earlier on Saturday, \u200bModi said \u200bhe condemned attacks on critical infrastructure \u200cin the Middle East \u200bin the \u200bdiscussion with Pezeshkian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Indian Prime Minister further reiterated the importance of safeguarding freedom \u200bof navigation \u200cand ensuring shipping lanes remain open and \u200bsecure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Ananya Palyekar in Bengaluru; \u200bEditing by Sharon Singleton)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 21 (Reuters) &#8211; Iran&#8217;s President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Saturday that there needs \u200cto be an &#8220;immediate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":672447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[22673,83,99,14241,19720,50,185800],"class_list":["post-672446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-aggression","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-masoud-pezeshkian","tag-narendra-modi","tag-news","tag-regional-conflict"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116269606753714540","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}